From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16471 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2005 16:07:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16217 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Aug 2005 16:07:26 -0000 Received: from lug-owl.de (HELO lug-owl.de) (195.71.106.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:07:26 +0000 Received: by lug-owl.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 45B07F0038; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:07:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:26:00 -0000 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Nick Clifton Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.org Subject: Re: [RFA] Add some VAX floating point formats to floatformat.[ch] Message-ID: <20050822160723.GN13517@lug-owl.de> References: <200508212153.j7LLrJXJ006901@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <43098730.3060802@redhat.com> <4393.192.87.1.200.1124706151.squirrel@192.87.1.200> <4309BE5A.8020503@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="f54savKjS/tSNRaU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4309BE5A.8020503@redhat.com> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.12.3lug-owl X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00226.txt.bz2 --f54savKjS/tSNRaU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1175 On Mon, 2005-08-22 13:00:26 +0100, Nick Clifton wrote: > Hi Mark, >=20 > >>>+ /* VAX byte order. */ > >>>+ floatformat_vax > >> > >>I think that having a more descriptive comment for the VAX byte order > >>would be helpful. eg describing the layout of 1.2345678e10 as is done > >>with the other entries in this enum. > > > >Could do that, although it wouldn't be particular useful. VAX is not qu= ite > >IEEE, so the bytes will be completely different, not just shuffled aroun= d. >=20 > Ok well then how about the comment containing a quick precis of the VAX=20 > format. I am sure that various people will be interested to read it. That's actually quite simple: transcribe the nice pictures in the VAX Architecture Reference Manual into ASCII art and give a specific example for one number. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 = _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg = _ _ O f=C3=BCr einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=C3=BCrger" | im Internet! | i= m Irak! O O O ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)= ); --f54savKjS/tSNRaU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDCfg7Hb1edYOZ4bsRArzTAJsGhTF8TCIYmsYl+458mNkp9KF+TwCghiNi 3PyFiziTBES1KzmXc8MOTpU= =43ds -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f54savKjS/tSNRaU--